Hard crashing PC locks up

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skewedkarma#3459 wrote:

I was experiencing PC freeze when zoning and had to hard reboot. Like others, this seemed to be connected to hyperthreading. Changed my Nvidia driver from "game ready" to "studio driver" and haven't had another crash or freeze since.

Interesting. I was going to try this but hadn't bothered yet.

For me 2 things fixed my pc hard freezes, for a few days now

disable cpu 0 and 1 + also put game priority to realtime

Sometimes the game still freezes, but rarely, and the pc didnt hard freeze once since

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Macchiavel#8781 wrote:

Same issue's been happening for approximately a week over here,
Although it is now literally out of control as it starts hard crashing while first loading the game from the steam library, which is far worst than once every few hours of game time.

As of today, Has anyone noticed some unfortunate evolution in the crashes frequency?

I did notice this a couple days ago, but I also noticed that once the instance timed out/died that it was trying to connect me back into, I could then connect again without crashing in the last town I was in.

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skewedkarma#3459 wrote:

I was experiencing PC freeze when zoning and had to hard reboot. Like others, this seemed to be connected to hyperthreading. Changed my Nvidia driver from "game ready" to "studio driver" and haven't had another crash or freeze since.

Very interesting. I haven't had enough time to confirm that changing to the Nvidia "studio driver" for my 4090 is reliable long term, but I did notice that the spinning gears when the loading page shows are a lot smoother so far.

I also installed an optional Western Digital driver update.

Seems like NVAPI's power percentage monitoring doesn't play well with X3D CPUs specifically, so I disabled that.

Nulled.

if it helps, it helps.

After a fresh w11(24h2) install, I did the exclusion folders on virus threats, 100Gb shader cache and changed DX12 to Vulkan.

I think in 2 days I got 2 freezes but playing everyday(8/10hrs a day) and not disabling multithread while zooning. Uncapped fps too.

I'm just doing maps atm.

Funny thing, one of the freezes happened when changed display monitor in-game. After that I only use the shift+win+arrow to do it and never had issues.

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Ulsarek#7159 wrote:

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haluter#3044 wrote:

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skewedkarma#3459 wrote:

I was experiencing PC freeze when zoning and had to hard reboot. Like others, this seemed to be connected to hyperthreading. Changed my Nvidia driver from "game ready" to "studio driver" and haven't had another crash or freeze since.

Very interesting. I haven't had enough time to confirm that changing to the Nvidia "studio driver" for my 4090 is reliable long term, but I did notice that the spinning gears when the loading page shows are a lot smoother so far.

Lmao. Yeah sure, as far as gaming goes both drivers do the exact same thing for you, but hey the spinning gears are "smoother". Another case of placebo, best of luck though.

I did 3 (three) things, in case you missed it. Don't hate me just because I found something that makes the game work for me :p

When is their holiday over? This is a pretty serious issue.

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skewedkarma#3459 wrote:

I was experiencing PC freeze when zoning and had to hard reboot. Like others, this seemed to be connected to hyperthreading. Changed my Nvidia driver from "game ready" to "studio driver" and haven't had another crash or freeze since.

I had a similar experience:
Was playihng for about 2 weeks with almost no crashes, at least on load screens.. I was using Nvidia Studio Drivers this whole time.
Then suddenly the freezes starts on load screens, and don't seem to cease. one of the first "solutions" i tried was changing to game ready. But the issue persisted or even got worst :\ i'll try to go back to Studio drivers.. if it works i'll update here also ^^ For now im playing on Direct x 11 with MultiThreading off, it's the only way i get 0 crashes.

I am curious how long are people waiting before going the reset route?

I hate resetting so I tend to wait and so far have had my system recover - though it might take anywhere from 90 seconds to 5 minutes - and log me out.

I dont know if the freeze is triggered by a timeout situation or the freeze causes a timeout situation leading to a forced disconnect.

For those with AMD x3d CPU's like myself and are on Windows, do you have Game Mode on or off? I suspect (but do not know) that CCD switching is part of what is going on.

I also wonder if Windows thread management is part of the core issue.